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Anxiety in a post-COVID world
Newton’s cradle where one end swinging ball is a covid virus cell and the other is a content happy face.

Anxiety in a post-COVID world

A return to the next normal post-pandemic may trigger anxiety for people anticipating a more public-facing life after a year of isolation.
Even without a brain, metal-eating robots can search for food
Film still of a small wheeled robot traveling a path between yellow tape.

The “metal-eating” robot can follow a metal path without using a computer or needing a battery. By wiring the power-supplying units to the wheels on the opposite side, the robot autonomously navigates away from the tape and towards aluminum surfaces. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Even without a brain, metal-eating robots can search for food

SEAS engineers are developing robot-powered technology with energy sources that are harvested in the robot’s environment.

Evan Lerner

Student financial ambassadors promote financial wellness
A pig drawn with thought bubbles of a bag, car, and house with a banner reading "finance your future"

Lydia Ko, a junior in the Weitzman School of Design, designed the graphics for the financial education campaigns.

Student financial ambassadors promote financial wellness

A new team of student financial ambassadors offer peer one-on-one counseling and workshops on personal finance basics as part of the program launched this spring.

Kristina García

Sixty percent of opioids unused after common procedures
White pills in a pile.

Sixty percent of opioids unused after common procedures

A new Penn Medicine study of how text messaging could inform opioid prescribing practices shows that 60% of opioids are left over after orthopaedic and urologic procedures.

From Penn Medicine News

In These Times: Black lives and the call for justice
Cartoon montage of a protest, a raised fist, a gun, and a masked African American individual.

Image: Adriana Bellet

In These Times: Black lives and the call for justice

The first two episodes of the Omnia podcast’s second season discuss the Black Lives Matter movement and the lasting impact of slavery and colonialism on the laws and policies that have governed Black lives throughout history.

Developing a new platform for DNA sequencing
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Developing a new platform for DNA sequencing

Research from the lab of Marija Drndić in the School of Arts & Sciences shows how solid state materials can be developed for large-scale automated sequencing by incorporating state-of-the-art fabrication and analytics.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Mothers bear the cost of the pandemic shift to remote work
Teleworking mother holds up hand to son schooling remotely who asks a question

The pandemic has led to extra domestic labor—both housework and parenting—that disproportionately falls to mothers, according to a new study. 

Mothers bear the cost of the pandemic shift to remote work

The pandemic exposed and reinforced gender-biased household divisions of labor, according to a new study by Penn sociologists.

Katherine Unger Baillie